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Salk Middle School, Rogers High School win state MESA

By Kevin Dudley, WSU Spokane SPOKANE, Wash. – Student teams from Salk Middle School and Rogers High School took home first place finishes recently at the MESA State Championship at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, Wash. Salk will represent Washington at the MESA (mathematics, engineering, science achievement) National Competition June 22-25 in Ogden, Utah.

Students mix brawn and brains for wrestling success

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – Washington State University Tri-Cities students Joseph Traverso and Robert Mendoza credit intellectual as well as physical preparation for their recent top finishes at the Northwest Conference Wrestling Championship, which qualified them for the National Collegiate Wrestling Association championships March 10-12.

Eight WSU students competing in wrestling nationals

RICHLAND, Wash. – Eight students from Washington State University Pullman and Tri-Cities will compete at the National Collegiate Wrestling Association national championships starting today after placing at the Northwest Conference Wrestling Championship at the end of February.

Students earn honorable mention

Photo: The 2008 Bateman Team at their February 29 Strikes for Safety event. Left to right–Kirby Pratt, Justin Dotterweich, Alana Morgan, Jessica Fitts and Jana Lindsey.   PULLMAN – The Public Relations Society of America awarded Honorable Mention to five WSU students who competed in a four-month long national public relations competition.   Senior public […]

Grant advances aquatic exercise research

PULLMAN – Thanks to a $1 million grant from the National Swimming Pool Foundation, WSU researchers plan to create the National Aquatics and Sports Medicine Institute. “This will be the world’s premiere center for aquatic health research,” says the institute director, Dr. Bruce Becker, a physician and research professor in WSU’s College of Education. “There […]